Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-04
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

IEkRlI OElAL NEW >.
Wheat is selling at 80 cents in FL
lenshurg and IS cents in Walla Walla.
The girls Of the Waitsburg public
school have organized baseball club.
Isaac Hayes, OF Yakima raised eight
hundred bushels of sweet potatoes this
year.
Three hundred thousand tons OF
wheat will 90 from Walla Walla to
London the present year.
Ezra Meeker has 10000 pounds of
hops on hand, most of which will be
shipped to England and Japan.
Three vessels are now enroute to Sc
attic with 7,lO7 tons of rails for the
Lake shore and West Coast Railroads.
Fifteen babies were born in Tacoma
during the month of October, females
predominating in number over males.
Attorney Edgar Lehman, of Walla
Walla, and Isaac NJ Muncy, of
Dayton, are arranging to start IL
newspaper at Wallula.
Yesterday morning, Arthur ii.
Clough, painter, fell from building
at Tacoma, and was injured so severe
ly that he died half an hour after
wards.
Several Quillayute farmers have sue
cessfully tried the experiment of rails
ing PEPPERMINT and distilling the oil,
and will next season engage quite ex-
tensively in the business.
Engineer Huson reports that the
snow-sheds over the switchback are
completed, and that there will be no
interruption to traffic this winter from
slides. The injunction on the mills
only applied to those saving timber
for the kennewick bridge.
The AdrOcate protests against the
removal of the U. S. Land Office from
Vancouver to Winlock. 1t expresses
satisfaction with its present location
but modestly intimates that next t.
Vancouver, Kalama presents the most
proper and convenient location for the
Land Office for that district.
The fOur-masted schooner Kitsap
built by Middlemass & Bodies of San
Francisco, at Port Ludlow, for the Pu
get Mill company, has received the
finishing touches on the hull and wa.
launched Monday. The dimensions
are length, 1882 feet; beam. 4O.5 feet
depth, Is feet; registered tonnage
1904.
G. B. Gillian, of Maple Grove, has
grown some corn, the stalks of which
were from eleven to twelve feet high
the ears Is inches in length by 1Ol
inches circumference, the kernels large
and plump, and which will run over SC
bushels to the acre, says the La Camas
News. The same paper says A. f. Boy
er of Prune Hill, raised potatoes one
dozen of which weighed 164 pounds
the largest one three pounds; and tina,
Mr.. J. Sutton raised tobacco this season
on which the leaves measured 81 feet
long and 10 inches wide. Yakima coun
ty produces one weighing g. pounds
says the Signal.
The Snohomish Eye says: Geo
Thomas, who owns a forty-acre farm
on the marsh about two miles south
west of SEohomish, finished cutting
his second crop of timothy hay last
week. The first crop, cut in July
averaged four tons to the acre, while
the second crop will average three tons
Seven tons Of hay to the acre in one
season is something that few farmers
outside of the Puget Sound district
can boast Of. When we take crops
soil and climate into consideration
this is certainly wonderful region
and we have right to boast of it. II
being a new country the iteration and
the reiteration may be pardoned. We
have thousands of idle inviting acres
in this country, easy of access, which
when reclaimed are as productive as
the farm on which these crops of hay
were raised, and which promise thrifty
homes for intelligent and industrious
farmers.
Port Townsend Call: The discovery
of a coal ledge on the peninsula upon
which Port Townsend is located is Q
very important event for the city o.
Port Townsend. 1t may be too soor
to indulge in fanciful anticipations o.
great results from such source Of
wealth, because not much is known
yet as to the richness of these Goa
lands, but it has been known for years
that coal exists around the bays o.
both Port Townsend and Port discov
cry awaiting capital to develop it. Al
all events an effort will at once bt
made by interested parties to deter
mine exactly the quality and some
thing of the quantity of this most
useful mineral. Let us hope that the
sanguine expectations of the owners
of coal lands hereabouts will be real
lied in full and that new era of pro
ductive industry, wealth and activity
is about to dawn upon us.
Port Townsend Call: The ware
houses ON Union wharf arc piled full
of salmon, awaiting shipment. 1t is
safe to say there never was SO much
good fish in Port Townsend at any one
time before. In two warehouses there
are over $50 tones of salmon in boxes
which will be shipped to San Francis
CO. In another warehouse there is 4,
269 cases purchased here which wal
commenced to be shipped to-day te
points in the East and Southern parts
Of the United States. 1t goes to Pitts
burg and as far south as New Orleans
This business of shipping salmon and
other canned fish from Port Townsend
to other parts of the globe has just
commenced, and this lot consisting Of
1859 cases. is the initial shipment
Next year the business in this line here
will be large, and preparations are be-
ing made by Port Townsend parties to
handle and ship vast quantities Of
canned goods in this line.
GENERAL NEWS.
Woman Suffrage.
MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION AT PHIL